*Creamy dreamy hummus

from Ottolenghi Test Kitchen – Shelf Love (page 20) by Yotam Ottolenghi and Noor Murad

This is now my favourite hummus recipe!

The ingredients are pretty much the same as every other recipe: Chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice, garlic and salt.

What made this different:

using bi-carb of soda in the cooking water. Be careful, that stuff just keeps foaming over the top
constantly removing the scum off the top
adding cumin powder to the cooking water
cooking the chickpeas until very soft
removing as best as you can the chickpea skins
not using EVOO in the blending
adding ice cubes to the blending

I used a 1kg bag of chickpeas, 2 x375ml jars of tahini, 2 lemons, 8 cloves of garlic, and several teaspoons of salt. All to taste. It made about 2.2kg of hummus.